File No. 812.00/21694
The Mexican Ambassador ( Bonillas) to the Secretary of State
Excellency: I have the honor to inform your excellency that the citizen Consul of Mexico at Tucson, Arizona, reports to me that the reactionaries residing in that town are arming Yaqui Indians and organizing an expedition with the object of invading the State of Sonora. The Consul has personally applied to the Federal officials whom he asked to watch the conspirators, and, failing to succeed in obtaining that they should not be permitted to violate the neutrality laws, he applies to the Embassy with a request that the said authorities be moved to enforce the neutrality laws.
The said Consul says the following in his despatch:
I have the honor to report to you that the reactionaries residing in this town have of late displayed great activity in their work against the interests of our country, holding daily meetings at which they conspire with the knowledge and connivance of the authorities to organize a Villista expedition to invade the State of Sonora. The men who hold those seditious meetings are: Carlos Randall, Lie. José Caballero, Alberto Morales, Francisco Arévalo, Bartolo Miquerray, Lie. Bustamante, ex-General Camberos, so-called Col. Juan Antonio Garcia, Col. Juan Diaz Lopez, Miguel Santa Cruz, Dionisio Lacarra, Colonel Solares, and a multitude of Yaqui Indians who are constantly arriving in this town. The place where they meet is a house where secondhand articles, mostly arms, are sold, standing at 133 South Meyer Street and owned by Joaquin Carrillo, where they freely evolve their plans. I have given timely notice of all these doings to the Federal authorities of this town, whom I also furnished with precise data as to the said doings.
Our Secret Service agent having informed me that there were in the said house of Carrillo 19 Yaqui Indians on Wednesday last, who were being given aims and equipment, I personally called on the agent of the Department of Justice, Mr. Mock, whom I told about the movement of those men so that he would prevent their going, and I warned him that they were to be taken out of town in automobiles during the night and sent across into our territory. Our agent also reported to me that Cabecilla [Chieftain] Reyna who came to [Page 551] get ammunition and war implements and make arrangements with the conspirators had arrived in this town. As the said Reyna had already broken the neutrality laws of this country, I again applied to the aforesaid agent of the Department of Justice, Mr. Mock, and asked for the arrest of Reyna and also of all the men who were then assembled in the Carrillo house, with plans, maps, and other seditious documents. Mr. Mock, despite the fine opportunity I gave him to take Reyna and the other seditious men in the act, asked me whether I could bring him some witness or he could commission some one to make sure that it was really Reyna who was with them. I replied to Mr. Mock that I knew that Reyna was there, having seen him with my own eyes, and that I asked for his immediate arrest. Mr. Mock, showing very little disposition to help me, told me to come to him again later and that he was going to watch the place, making excuses for not arresting him forthwith. I returned later and did not find him there, sufficient time having been given the said Reyna to escape well armed and equipped, as also to the Yaqui Indians who left with him. I have not yet been able to see the above-named agent of the Department of Justice who evidenced the greatest reluctance to perform his duties.
With a statement that I have put all the threads of these conspiracies in the hands of the authorities and also gave them timely notice of these movements without thus far succeeding in having any measure taken to prevent the unrestrained plotting against our Government, I take the liberty of most respectfully suggesting to you that you apply, if you deem it expedient, to the Department of State in order that the authorities of this place be more watchful of our enemies who brazenly and publicly flout their vigilance.
In bringing the foregoing facts to your excellency’s knowledge, I ask that the unlawful acts herein denounced be investigated by the proper agencies, that condign punishment be brought upon those who may be found responsible, and that strict vigilance be exercised over the conspirators whose names have been given and their accomplices.
I personally know Carlos Randall, Alberto Morales, Francisco Arévalo, Bartolo Miquerray, ex-General Camberos, Juan Antonio Garcia and Dionisio Lacarra to have been in collusion with the unfaithful Villista José María Maytorena, whose agents they are at present and who are incessantly conspiring against the Government of Mexico at Los Angeles, California, and, through their agents, in various parts of the Sonora border.
I avail myself [etc.]